Midwest
Trump running mate Vance aims to turn Blue Wall states red
BYRON CENTER, Mich. — When it comes to the crucial battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, long known as the Democrats’ ‘blue wall’ states, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance is optimistic they’re “going to be the red wall in November.”
“We’re going to make sure that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan go red,” former President Trump’s 2024 running mate emphasized in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital on the campaign trail in southwestern Michigan this past week.
Democrats reliably won all three working-class states in presidential elections for nearly a quarter-century before Trump narrowly carried them in capturing the White House eight years ago.
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Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, headlines a Trump campaign event in Byron Center, Michigan, on August 14, 2024. (Fox News — Paul Steinhauser)
But in 2020, President Biden won back all three states with razor-thin margins as he defeated Trump.
The states remain extremely competitive as Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump face off in the 2024 presidential election.
Last month’s Republican National Convention was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city. And Trump and Vance held their first join-campaign rally after the convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan, just a few miles north of where Vance was interviewed by Fox News on Wednesday.
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Vance, a first-term populist senator and a leading Trump ally in the Senate, has made stops in all three blue wall states in the past two weeks, and told Fox News that he would be spending plenty of time in the states the rest of the summer and autumn spreading the GOP ticket’s working-class message.
“We’re going to make sure that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan go red. People are sick of green energy scams that ship our manufacturing jobs to China instead of keeping them right here at home in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I think we have a great pro-manufacturing, pro-American worker message,” he emphasized.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Trump and GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio appear on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Vance said that his pitch to working-class voters is a “core message that Donald Trump and I have in this campaign and this is a good place for people to hear it.”
Vance hails from Ohio, which neighbors both Pennsylvania and Michigan, and his Midwestern and working-class roots in a region long known as the ‘Rust Belt’ were likely key factors in Trump’s decision to name the senator as his running mate.
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Before running for Senate, Vance grabbed national attention after his book “Hillbilly Elegy” – which tells his story of growing up in a struggling steel mill city and his roots in Appalachian Kentucky – became a New York Times bestseller and was then made into a Netflix film. The story spotlighted the values of many working-class Americans who became supporters of Trump’s policies.
Fox News observed as Vance spread his Midwestern folksiness with the owners and family of the trucking company that hosted last week’s rally in Michigan.
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Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and his wife Usha meet with supporters ahead of a campaign event in Byron Center, Michigan on August 14, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Holding the baby of one of the family members, the senator — who was accompanied by his wife — said that he wanted a fourth child.
And later, in his speech at the rally, he spotlighted the instrumental role his grandmother “Mamaw” in his life. The comments have become a key ingredient in his stump speech.
“I was one of the lucky ones – I managed to achieve the American Dream. I managed to build a life because I had a Mamaw that was tough as nails,” Vance told the crowd.
Democrats have repeatedly taken aim at Vance, and have argued that he’s anything but a working-class hero, as they point to his years in San Francisco as a top hedge fund executive when he worked as a principal in a venture capital firm owned by billionaire Peter Thiel.
Harris — who replaced Biden last month atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket and who named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, another Midwesterner, as her running mate — charges that Vance is a “rubber stamp” for Trump’s “extreme agenda”
“Make no mistake, JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country,” Harris has said.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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Detroit, MI
Jay Leno to visit Woodward Dream Cruise Saturday to pick up antique jet-powered car
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Jay Leno’s upcoming visit to the Woodward Dream Cruise has been three years in the making.
Well, really, it has been 61 years in the making.
Leno, an avid car collector and returning attendee of the Dream Cruise, will be coming to metro Detroit to see the thousands of cool cars lining Woodward, but he will also be here to pick up — and tell some stories about — his 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car, an experimental coupe built by Chrysler. The car is powered by a turbine engine and coated in a glowing orange coat of paint over its swoopy, sleek body. There were 55 of them made, and Chrysler rolled them out as a sort of publicity stunt.
Eventually, Chrysler decided it didn’t want to take the car to market and rolled them back, destroying most of them. Only nine of them still survive. Six of them are in museums. Chrysler owns two. The other belongs to Jay Leno.
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According to Leno’s friend, Steve Lehto, the cars ran on any liquid that burned: “You can drive these things on kerosene, diesel, palm heating oil, Chanel No. 5, vodka, tequila.”
Lehto, an attorney with a law office in Southfield and also a successful car-law-related YouTube channel with over 500,000 subscribers, has written a whole book about the Turbine Car, featuring a forward from Leno himself. The two have been friends for years, but it began with Leno poking fun at him on his late-night show, “The Tonight Show,” for a different book he had written, called “Death’s Door,” which had been advertised as a good Christmas present. Leno joked that the title was too morose for a Christmas gift, and moved on.
Lehto found it funny, and sent a copy of “Death’s Door” to Leno, along with a manuscript for his book about the Turbine Car, knowing he was a car enthusiast, on a whim. Leno called him, interested in the manuscript, and they sparked a friendship over a fascination with the experimental vehicle.
Eventually, Leno convinced Chrysler to sell him one of the nine remaining Turbine Cars.
Lehto and Leno kept in touch over the years, with Lehto even flying to California to take the car for a spin, but contact was sporadic and intermittent, Lehto said.
That is, until Leno called three years ago with a problem: The engine in his Turbine Car had completely failed. Kaput.
“He said he had tried everybody he could think of to fix the car,” Lehto said. Not even Leno’s own team of automotive experts could fix it. Leno wanted to know if Lehto knew anyone who might be able to make it run again.
“There’s only one thing I can think of that we haven’t talked about yet,” Lehto remembers saying. “The guy who is like the godfather of (the Turbine Car) was named Sam Williams.”
Williams, a celebrated engineer known for his work on turbine engines, left Chrysler in the ’60s. He opened his own business, Williams International, in Walled Lake soon after, bringing a number of the original Turbine Car engineers with him. Nowadays, Williams International specializes in jet engines on military contracts, and they are certainly not in the business of repairing antique cars.
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But Lehto said whatever brainpower went into building the Turbine Car in the 1960s went to Williams International, and if anyone could help Leno, it was them, he said.
Leno asked him whether he knew anyone who worked there.
“Yeah, my brother works there,” Lehto remembers saying.
After a little hemming and hawing, Lehto said, Williams International agreed to take Leno’s car and fix it as long as it didn’t disrupt their normal workflow.
For three years, Lehto’s brother and other engineers at Williams International worked to put the car back together after Leno had it shipped to them in crates. They 3D-printed parts in steel. They remade parts that haven’t been manufactured in decades. They rallied together long-retired engineers from the ’60s who worked on the initial Turbine Cars.
And three years later, as the product of hours of late-night and weekend maintenance, Leno’s Turbine Car started running and driving last week, Lehto said. On Saturday, he’s coming to pick it up.
Lehto said it’s the nature of the car community to come together for a project like this.
“Everybody was helping on this,” he said. “It’s true of a lot of car communities where people who rally around a particular car are happy to share their knowledge, share their expertise and even happy to share their parts.”
You might think car collectors get greedy, Lehto said, but the saga to rebuild Leno’s ride has been an exercise in sharing.
“If you’ve got one of these cars, you would think you’d hang on to your parts, like ‘Don’t touch my stuff I might need it!’ ” Lehto said. “But no, they’re happy to help because they want to see another car stay on the road.”
News reporter Liam Rappleye can be reached at LRappleye@freepress.com
Milwaukee, WI
'We have to do something differently': City leaders address rising rate of carjackings, break-ins in Milwaukee
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MILWAUKEE — A major rise in car break-ins has the community asking for answers. On Friday, Milwaukee city leaders addressed what is being done to fix the rise in crime.
In the last month alone, the city has seen a 30% jump in car break-ins — and that’s only counting the incidents that have been reported to police.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson, alongside representatives from MPD and the Common Council, came to the table to address the issue.
Officials are asking for residents to report any and all crimes they see and to be careful storing their belongings in their cars.
“I’m going to call on strict accountability, strict accountability on those criminal actions,” said Mayor Johnson.
The mayor emphasized that residents, specifically, should not leave any firearms inside vehicles.
Watch: City leaders address rising rate of carjackings, break-ins in Milwaukee
City leaders address car-related crimes
“If you are a gun owner, do not leave your gun in the car. Thieves are often looking for weapons to steal and then go and perpetuate crimes in other parts of the city.”
Milwaukee Police Inspector, David Feldmeier, says MPD is allocating more resources to address the crime concerns in the city.
“We are following up on several leads in the downtown area on carjacking, and auto thefts and we are constantly looking for more information.”
Feldmeier said most reports are of groups of teens breaking into these cars.
Common Council President Jose Perez called for changes in the juvenile justice system to keep young people from repeating the same crimes over and over again.
“We have to create a better accountability method for all the entities— probation, parole, the court system,” said Perez. “Everyone involved, we gotta step it up and we gotta do something differently. It can’t be business as usual because that’s gotten us to the point that we’re at now.”
According to MPD, there were 24 arrests for entry to locked vehicles and 135 arrests for carjacking from January 1, 2024, to August 15, 2024.
There were 267 carjackings and 2,047 entries to autos from January 1 to August 15 in 2023, compared to 337 carjackings and 1,878 entries to autos in 2024 during the same period.
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Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis bus driver gives barefoot passenger her own shoes
Minneapolis — Nothing gets past Minneapolis Metro Transit bus driver Jayne Arendt-Verhelst on her bus.
But last month, Arendt-Verhelst noticed a problem outside of it. Her bus was approaching an intersection when she saw a woman standing in the middle of the street waving her down. Even though the woman wasn’t at a bus stop, Arendt-Verhelst broke policy, pulled over and let her board.
“When I opened up the door, that’s when I really saw her,” Arendt-Verhelst told CBS News. “I saw her from head to toe and I was just like, wow.”
The woman, who appeared to be homeless, wasn’t wearing any shoes.
“I can’t imagine what it’s like walking around with bare feet on the hot pavement,” Arendt-Verhelst said. “And just, nobody sees you. She’s just kind of invisible, you know?”
But she was not invisible to Arendt-Verhelst, who immediately took the shoes off her own feet and gave them to her.
“I knew that you’re not supposed to drive in your socks, it’s a big no-no, but I couldn’t help it,” said Arendt-Verhelst, who has been a bus driver with Metro Transit for 18 years.
After her good deed, she contacted a supervisor from the bus to inform her of the unplanned stop.
“And I told her what I did. And she (the supervisor) said, ‘Well, you don’t have far back to the garage, so continue.’ I’m like, ‘OK,’” Arendt-Verhelst recounted.
Several riders witnessed that moment, but perhaps no one was more touched by it than passenger Sarah Seldon, who had been homeless before and knew how meaningful a simple kindness can be.
“It really, like, affected me because it was like, oh my gosh, she sees this woman,” Seldon said.
Often, we’re told to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. But in certain moments, it’s even more important to let that someone stand in ours.
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